Carrie decided she wanted a new haircut, so yesterday she and I went to the kid’s salon. Ta-da! I’m going to miss braiding her long, thick hair – but after how easy it was to brush through this morning, maybe not so much as I thought I would! And actually, I’m kind of jealous. I [...]
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It tastes as good as it looks! We were going to wait another couple of weeks to start Anna on solid food, but she was going to take matters into her own hands – quite literally – if we didn’t start feeding her. Any time I hold her on my lap while I eat she [...]
Posted in Firsts
Anna was, I think, the perfect age for a first Christmas. Not quite mobile enough to get into everything yet, but interested and engaged and awed by the lights, the colorful wrapping paper, and the fabulous new toys she could put in her mouth. She’s just thrilled beyond words to be able to roll all [...]
Posted in Carolyn, Firsts, Holidays
Anna spent the morning merrily rolling around the floor among all of the new toys she got for Christmas. And then she was on her tummy, with an enticing toy just out of reach in front of her. She dug in her little toes and came thisclose to scooting forward. If it were simply mind [...]
Posted in Anna
Dear Carolyn, Today you are four years and two months old! It’s also your Grandma’s birthday, and Christmas Eve! You are so excited about Santa. I can hear you bouncing around upstairs, almost an hour after we put you to bed. But you have to realize one very important thing: Santa doesn’t come until everyone [...]
Posted in Monthly Updates
So it only took Anna eight days to learn how to flip back from her tummy onto her back. Life as we know it is going to change drastically, because a baby who can roll both ways is a mobile baby. Time to figure out where to keep all of Carrie’s teeny-tiny choking-hazard toys…
Posted in Anna
We were supposed to drive to NYC today, but the weather reports sounded really bad, so at 7 PM we made the decision to leave as soon as we could get everything in the car. Which was 9 PM. Actually, though, all things considered it wasn’t a bad way to make the trip. We stopped [...]
Posted in General
So I’m a little late with everything to do with the holidays – including the decorating. Yesterday Carrie and I broke out the “family room” box and decorated the mantel: I was fussing with the lights for a few minutes, and when I turned around, Carrie had decorated the dogs: Considering the efforts we went [...]
Posted in Carolyn, Dogs, Holidays
Is there anything much cuter than 4 (and 5) year olds in little costumes singing? I thought not. Carrie was the Innkeeper’s Wife in the Christmas pageant this year, and had one of the only spoken lines in the whole play: “No room in the inn!” Unlike last year, the baby doll didn’t come close [...]
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